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"'Shattered Dreams' recounts the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future spaceflight mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies"--

Includes bibliographical references and index

Prologue: end of a spaceflight dream -- Losing the moon: Apollo, the abandoned missions -- Earthbound astronaut: scientist-astronaut Duane ("Doc") Graveline -- Born beneath the Southern Cross: NASA's Group 6 astronaut Philip K. Chapman -- Svetlana's story: Russia's journalist-in-space program and cosmonaut-journalist Svetlana Omelchenko -- Unfulfilled ambitions: Lt. Cdr. Stephen D. Thorne, USN -- The greatest gesture: oceanographer Robert E. Stevenson -- Test pilot and ex-astronaut: Group 5 astronaut Lt. Cdr. John S. Bull, USN -- An Indonesian flag in space: payload specialist Pratiwi Sudarmono -- Countdown to Skynet: Britain's first astronaut candidates -- Patience, persistence, and guts: the extraordinary story of Frank K. Ellis -- Vostok lady: pilot and parachutist Marina Popovich -- With stars in her eyes: Group 19 mission specialist Patricia Hilliard Robertson -- New Hampshire to the new frontier: payload specialist candidate Robert J. Wood -- Argentina's only astronaut: Fernando ("Frank") Caldeiro

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